What song, poem, book or other piece of art do you think of as quintesentially English...?

Question

Sir Thomas Beecham? Sir Noel Coward? The Beatles? John Moore? Sir John Betjemen?...Oasis?...Morrisey?...Sir Lawrence Olivier?...

Answer 1

Anything by Edgar Allen Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher is really good.

Answer 2

How can you have forgotten Shakespeare!

Answer 3

The Soldier

Rupert Brooke

If I should die, think only this of me:

That there's some corner of a foreign field

That is forever England. There shall be

In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;

A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,

Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam;

A body of England's, breathing English air,

Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,

A pulse in the eternal mind, no less

Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;

Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;

And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,

In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

Answer 4

"Daffodils" the poem by Wm. Wordsworth..

Answer 5

Shakespeare and Harry Potter

Answer 6

I think Elegy from a country churchyard.

   It couldnt be anything other than English